Christmas Quotes
Most of the quotes on this page are not about Christmas at all. We built it from the pages on family, love and gratitude, which is what people tend to want for a card or a toast.
That makes it a long list, ordered by quality rather than by how seasonal each entry feels. If you want something that sounds like Christmas, search for it. If you want something that would be true at any family table, start here.
No one perfectly loves God who does not perfectly love some of his creatures.
Love is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing.
Love for old men is sun on the snow: it dazzles more than it warms them.
Out of five hundred who speak glibly of love, not one can spell the first letter of his name.
When you have not what you love, you must fain love what you have.
When you have not what you love, you must fain love what you have.
Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.
Men grow tired of sleep, love, singing and dancing, sooner than of war.
Trust no friend without faults, and love a maiden, but no angel.
All joys do not cause laughter; great pleasures are serious: pleasures of love do not make us laugh.
Self-love is a balloon filled with wind, from which tempests emerge when pricked.
Cease to behave as wolves and dogs that you may experience the Shepherd’s love.